Police seize car, cash, drugs from Emerson home

By James Leggate

Staff Writer |

Pascack Valley Community Life

Emerson police seized more than two pounds of marijuana, thousands of dollars in cash and a car after an officer spotted through a window a pair of men who were allegedly preparing marijuana for distribution, according to Detective Sgt. Michael McDermott.

Police received a call of a suspicious vehicle parked on Birch Street at 10:33 p.m. on Wednesday, June 18. An officer was dispatched and determined that the vehicle's passengers may have been in a nearby house.

When the officer went up to the home, he spotted two men inside packaging "a large quantity" of marijuana within plain site, McDermott said.

Police arrested 22-year-old borough resident Daniel Humphreys and 23-year-old Carlos Rocha, of Saddle Brook, and seized 2.2 pounds of marijuana, $13,900 in cash and a BMW, according to McDemott.

The men were each charged with possession of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to distribute, possession of CDS over 50 grams, possession of CDS with intent to distribute within 1,000 feet of a school zone, intent to distribute drug paraphernalia and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Both men were sent to Bergen County Jail. Rocha was held on $35,000 bail and Humphreys was held on $15,000 bail.

Police seize car, cash, drugs from Emerson home

By James Leggate

Staff Writer |

Pascack Valley Community Life

Emerson police seized more than two pounds of marijuana, thousands of dollars in cash and a car after an officer spotted through a window a pair of men who were allegedly preparing marijuana for distribution, according to Detective Sgt. Michael McDermott.

Police received a call of a suspicious vehicle parked on Birch Street at 10:33 p.m. on Wednesday, June 18. An officer was dispatched and determined that the vehicle's passengers may have been in a nearby house.

When the officer went up to the home, he spotted two men inside packaging "a large quantity" of marijuana within plain site, McDermott said.

Police arrested 22-year-old borough resident Daniel Humphreys and 23-year-old Carlos Rocha, of Saddle Brook, and seized 2.2 pounds of marijuana, $13,900 in cash and a BMW, according to McDemott.

The men were each charged with possession of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to distribute, possession of CDS over 50 grams, possession of CDS with intent to distribute within 1,000 feet of a school zone, intent to distribute drug paraphernalia and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Both men were sent to Bergen County Jail. Rocha was held on $35,000 bail and Humphreys was held on $15,000 bail.